What’s amazing about the wet-thighed conservative worship of John Bolton is that it’s being showered by people who claim to espouse “conservative family values” onto a guy who has yet to satisfactorily answer allegations that he forced his first wife into group sex and was known to frequent the swinger’s club Plato’s Retreat, which flourished in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Mitt Romney has declared. “Why can we not go back to hating the Indians Masons Irish Catholics Italians Blacks Chinese Suffragettes Evolutionists Socialists Jews Wets Communists Intellectuals Cubans India Indians the poor Mexicans Gays, hey did I mention Blacks? Muslims like the good ol’ days?” And on that last note, this looks like a good [...]

Republicans lose a few nuts in the Presidential race, but may gain a one-man assortment.

It’s not at all clear that Baradei will serve as the kind of leader in Egypt that he seems to want to. But given that Baradei is one of the few opposition leaders the US press seems to understand, I think it worthwhile to review the Neocons’ long-standing attacks on him.

Apparently, the Poodle’s memoir (the tour for which got a little messy in Dublin) confirms something that was blatantly obvious: Dick Cheney wanted to conquer the entire Middle East, country by country.

Ok, so I feel really dumb. When looking at the announcement of the Israeli “investigation” which attempts to bypass standard international law to coverup the attack on the Freedom Flotilla, I noted there was an Irishman and a Canadian on the panel – though without voting rights. I was distracted by the White House’s wholehearted [...]

Joe Hagan has an epic softball in the New York Magazine describing PapaDick Cheney’s plan to salvage his legacy. Or rather, Liz “BabyDick” Cheney’s plan to salvage Daddy’s legacy, and with it, launch her own career.